System crashed during update, how f'd am I

[pebcak]

For a very similar case, please read through the whole of this topic and hopefully with enough patience and perseverance, you will be able to recover your system like the OP of that thread did:

Kernel panic during update / issues with pacman sysroot

During my last update via yay (so pacman -Syu) I ran into a kernel panic, the last output was (56/56) upgrading yay :: Running post-transaction hooks... ( 1/16) Creating system user accounts... ( 2/16) Reloading system manager configuration... After a hard reboot I am getting (shortened a little where ...) Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00007f00 CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: systend Tainted: P Hardware name: ........................................... 5.7.9 arch1-1 #1 ad…